Hello, I'm
Building fast and scalable apps with PHP/Go/Java on the backend and Nuxt/Vue on the frontend. Let's turn ideas into reliable digital products.
Capabilities
Five areas I cover end to end, from the schema up to the deployment pipeline.
Database design and schema modelling with proper normalisation. Optimised, fast queries able to process large amounts of data.
Fast and scalable application backends — PHP first, with Go and Java where the workload suits them — plus safe, secure API design and integration with external tools and systems, following SOLID principles.
Responsive and user-friendly interfaces with Nuxt and TypeScript, using reusable components and Tailwind-based design systems, built around UX, accessibility and modern standards.
Robust and automated deployment to dedicated servers using Docker, CI/CD pipelines and secure SSH workflows — with ongoing updates and server maintenance for stability and optimal performance.
Administration of reliable and secure domains and email accounts with proven providers, mailbox scaling and cleanup, and SSL certificate management.
Why it holds up
Frameworks change every few years. What carries over is knowing how a domain actually behaves and how to keep it correct under load.
Across insurance, e-commerce, booking, fitness and hosting, the hard part has rarely been the framework. It has been the rules: what a renewal does when a payment fails halfway, which states an order may legally move between, what happens to a domain when a registrar API times out after it has already accepted the request.
I model that before I write handlers. Invariants live in the domain, not scattered across controllers; state transitions are explicit and testable; the edge cases the business cares about are named in the code rather than discovered in production. When a requirement is ambiguous, I go back to the people who own it instead of guessing — that single habit has prevented more defects than any tool.
PHP with Symfony, Mezzio and Laminas remains my sharpest tool and where I go deepest, and Go and Java sit alongside it where the workload calls for them. Around that: PostgreSQL and MySQL schemas designed to be normalised and fast, Redis and Elasticsearch where reads must be instant, Kafka and RabbitMQ for work that must survive a restart, and Docker and Kubernetes because code that only runs on my machine is not finished.
I turn business rules into explicit models and state machines, so the logic is readable, testable and hard to violate by accident.
Deepest in PHP and its ecosystem, with Go and Java where concurrency, throughput or an existing platform makes them the better fit.
Indexed, normalised schemas, queries measured rather than guessed, caching and queues placed where they actually remove load.
Comfortable with stakeholders, code review and release pressure — from daily stand-ups to production rollouts behind CI/CD.
Toolbox
Career
Working through DevTech as an outsourced engineer for Dogado GmbH — part of group.one, one of Europe's largest web presence and hosting groups. The work sits on a platform that thousands of customers depend on daily, so correctness, backwards compatibility and careful rollouts matter more than raw speed of delivery.
Two areas carry most of my work there:
Background
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineer
University of Defence
09.2015 — 06.2019
Writing
Recent write-ups on backend architecture, frontend craft and delivery.
Securing a dedicated server that you manage over SSH involves layering multiple defenses: strong authentication, a locked-down configuration, a firewall, and intrusion detection with alerting. This guide walks through the full process step by step, from creating a non-root user to setting up Fail2ban with email notific
Selected work
All representative projects I have worked on so far are privately owned and their code is not publicly available. Most of them also have no public web address and can only be reached inside a specific organisation or through a suitable VPN connection.
